Böcker av Daniel McGinn

Another fine book from Meat For Tea Press. The collaborative collection Fill Me With Birds lilts and tilts as Scott Ferry and Daniel McGinn call and respond. "When an image keeps coming back to mind / there's no escaping"-they volley images and themes between poems, circling and returning and building. Jesus, family, a father who talks in his sleep, a mother rocking her child in "her milk-wet / arms" weave together on Ferry and McGinn's pages turning us all to "light and strata." You won't want to miss how each word "hums and dances." -Allison Blevins, author of Cataloguing Pain Fill Me With Birds filled me with delight. This fascinating collaboration between Scott Ferry and Daniel McGinn grabbed me from the first page! These two, seasoned poets play off each other, like a poetic game of call and response. They've created poems rich with imagery and juxtaposed with candor, pushing each other to new heights. Much like the birds, they soar. ] -Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of Brazen, Triggered, and The Dead Kid Poems

Daniel McGinn is a native of Whittier, California. He received his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work has been published in The MacGuffin, Rip Rap, SurVision, Spillway, and The OC Weekly along with many other magazines and anthologies. He is the author of several chapbooks in the Laguna Poets series. His full-length poetry collections are are 1000 Black Umbrellas (Write Bloody, 2011) and The Moon, My Lover, My Mother & The Dog ( Moon Tide Press, 2018). In 2021, he won James Tate Poetry Prize for his chapbook "Drowning the Boy"

Poems of absolute nakedness that chase the power of love, Daniel McGinn is one of the most admired poets in the underground American poetry scene. These works are rooted in the overwhelming minutiae of everyday life: birth and death, marriage and children, work and leisure, sickness and health, hopelessness and redemption and even the comfort of sorrow. A hometown hero in the Southern California poetry scene for over twenty years, Daniel McGinn is known for deceptively simple, meticulously crafted poems. From the mind of this shy, quiet, unassuming man comes beautiful verse, begging to be invited in from out of the rain.